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1*      OCT  19  1911      * 


REV.   SPENCER  S.   ROCHE,    D.D..   Rector 

REV.  WM.   MONTGOMERY  DOWNEY,  Assistant 

HERBERT  R.  JOHNSTON,  Lay  Reader 


REV.  JOHN  CHAMBERLAIN,   D.D.,   in  charge  of  the 
work  among  Deaf  Mutes 


Clement  Lockitt  Charles  A.  Bryan 

Olrraaurrr 

Clement  Lockitt 

Urstriimm 

Edward  J.  Cami'hell  John  Wilson 

Edward  M.  Johnston  Henry  C.  Siegmann,  Clerk 

John  H.  de  les  Derniers  Francis  C.  E.  von  Sternherg 

Edwin  F.  Page  Alexander  H.  Tomkins 

(Enmmittrp  of  Uratry  uu  0t.  iKark's  ^ixtirtl)  Auuiurraarii 

Clement  Lockitt  Edward  M.  Johnston 

Henry  C.  Sie(;mann 

dmnmittrr  nf  iBnra  (Club 

W.  R.  T.  Johnston  A.  H.  Rissell 

J.    MrARIHLR 

(Eommtttrr  of  iBrnthrrhuuiii 

Geor(;e  G.  Grimm  Andrew  J.  Lamiiertson 


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"i't  ilark'a  (EI|urrl|  in  tl|p  Qltty  nf  Irooklyti" 

(Original  and  legal  title.) 

The  only  Episcopal  Church  between  Holy  Trinity 
on  the  Heights  and  vSt.  Mary's  on  Classon  Avenue,  a 
distance  of  nearly  two  iniles,  and  from  the  Navy  Yard 
on  the  East  River,  to  the  Church  of  the  Messiah  on 
Greene  Avenue,  a  distance  of  a  mile  and  a  half;  this  area 
consisting"  of  more  than  one  hundred  closely-populated 
city  blocks  containing  not  less  than  two  hundred 
thousand  souls,  in  the  past  mostly  Atnerican  Protestant, 
but  rapidly  receiving  Roman  Catholics,  Hebrews  and 
many  other  nationalities  and  religions, — good  citizens 
but  not  Anglican  Churchmen. 


(§i\t  ^m\hrtii  (<,ljnuaanfi  SoUara  uiill  ^irr^rtuatr  out  Work. 


The  First  Church  in  Fleet  Place,  built  by  the  Church 
of  the  Holy  Trinity,  1859.  Cost  of  three  lots,  $1800. 
construction,  furnishing- and  bell,  $3609.64;  total  i$5409. 64 
Abandoned  i860. 


Rev.   Francis  Peck,    1S50-1859 

Rev.    Edmund  Emhurv,    1859 

Rev.   Thomas  G.  Carver,   1859-1861 


Ask  for  ffittp  l^imbr^li  ©ItiiuBattli  inllara 
to  lEttbnui  ^t  Mtxtk*B 

This  Church,  organized  sixty  years  ago,  passed  its 
first  twenty-five  years  in  a  struggle  for  existence.  Several 
times  it  was  on  the  verge  of  extinction.  Every  five  or 
six  years  it  had  to  pass  a  crisis  from  which  the  most  of 
its  adherents  believed  the  only  outcome  must  be  death. 
Churches  are  not  kept  in  existence  so  long  unless  they 
have  a  work  assigned  them  by  Providence,  and  unless 
they  endeavor  to  discharge  their  obligations. 

The  last  thirty-five  years  have  seen  the  gathering, 
through  the  self-sacrifice  and  liberality  of  the  parishioners 
and  their  friends,  of  a  property  consisting  of  Church, 
Chapel  and  Rectory,  valued  at  §130,000,  against  which 
there  is  not  a  dollar  of  debt. 

Changes  both  actual  and  foreshadowed  in  the  neigh- 
borhood render  it  impossible  to  maintain  the  hard-won 
property  without  some  judicious  amount  of  endowment 
to  secure  the  service  of  a  properly  trained  and  capable 
minister, 


lllr  iiccii  (i)itr  ffiuiiiirri't  alunuuutii  DiiUarn. 

The  general  principle  should  be  admitted  that 
wherever  a  parish  gathers  a  valuable  property,  it  ought 
to  go  a  little  further  and  accumulate  a  productive  fund, 
that,  in  the  case  of  failing  financial  strength,  will  still 
permit  utilization  of  the  property  for  religious  purposes. 

The  Parish  has  conducted  for  sixty  years  a  Sunday 
School,  for  twenty  years  an  Industrial  School  for  teach- 
ing little  girls  to  sew  and  to  care  for  households.  We 
have  a  choir  organization  for  the  training  of  boys,  women 
and  men,  the  boys  especially  in  the  care  of  their  persons, 
as  well  as  in  morals  and  religion.  We  maintain  societies 
where  the  physical,  athletic  and  social  demands  of  youth 
are  regarded. 


The  Second  Church,  DeKalh  and  Portland  Avenues, 
erected  by  the  congregation.  Cost  of  ground  85000; 
cost  of  edifice,  $3500;  total  $8500;  occupied  December 
23,  i860;  sold  in  the  fall  of  1865,  to  the  Lafayette  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  Church,  Dr.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler, 
Pastor,  for  their  Mission,  which  later  became  the  memo- 
rial Presbyterian  Church,  St.  John's  Place  and  Seventh 
Avenue,  Rev.  T.  Calvin  McClelland,  Pastor. 
Rev.  Thomas  G.  Carver,  1859-1861 
Rev.  Thomas  F.  Cornell,   M.  D.,    1861-1869 


of  2{ra0tmt.  (Uljarilg.  dulUtrp.  Uplift. 


In  this  Parish  was  inaugurated  the  work  for  the 
relief  of  the  blind,  which  culminated  in  the  Home  for 
the  Blind  on  the  Church  Charity  Foundation.  Without 
charging  one  dollar,  we  have  opened  our  church  every 
Sunday  for  twenty-one  years,  to  a  service  for  the  Deaf 
Mutes  of  Brooklyn,  and  for  the  same  term  we  have  placed 
our  Parish  House  at  the  disposal  of  our  silent  brethren, 
for  their  social  meetines. 


The  Third  Cliurch  and  Chapel,  Adelphi  Street.  This 
was  the  birth  place  of  the  Churcli  of  the  Messiah,  which 
in  1850  erected  the  frame  Chapel  at  a  cost  of  six  hundred 
Dollars.  In  this  building  the  North  Reformed  Dutcli 
Church  held  a  service  each  Sunday,  for  a  year,  till  their 
new  edifice  on  Clermont  Avenue  was  completed  in  1H52. 
The  Messiah  in  1852  built  the  brick  church,  forty  feet 
front,  fift}'  feet  deep,  with  a  tower  fifty  feet  high.  An 
enlargement  in  1859  almost  doubled  the  length  of  this 
edifice.  St.  Mark's  purchased  this  property  in  the  fall 
of  1869  for  $10,000.  The  frame  Chapel  was  demolished 
in  1885  to  build  the  present  Chapel  and  Parish  House; 
the  brick  edifice  was  torn  down  in  1888  to  make  way  for 
the  present  church. 

Rev.    Thomas  F.   Cornell,    M.  D.    1861-1869 
Rev.   William  T.    Fitch,    1869-1875 
Ri-.v.    Si'KNCKK   S.    Roche,    D.    D.,    1875 — 


Sllff  Qlljurrlj  of  (Bab  jai}auUi  atjom  aa  mitrl|  lutH&nm  as  our 
Hprular  tnatitutiona. 


While  our  neighborhood  changes  very  slowly,  and 
will  in  all  probability  long  retain  a  residential  character, 
yet,  situated  as  we  are,  with  the  Navy  Yard  on  the  north, 
wnth  the  vast  and  ever-increasing  business  in  produce  at 
the  Wallabout,  and  with  the  new  freight  station  of  the 
Long  Island  Railroad,  anticipating  an  immense  factory 
development  on  the  south,  the  time  will  purely  come 
when  these  streets  and  avenues  will  either  be  given  up 
to  trade,  or  will  house  souls  needing  Christian  ministra- 
tions, and  unable  to  bear  the  whole  expense  of  a  parish. 
The  entire  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  would 
do  no  more  than  ensure  the  church's  having  one  reason- 
ably paid  clergyman ;  the  cost  of  assistants,  sexton, 
organist,  singers,  repairs,  insurance,  light,  heat,  print- 
ing and  all  other  things  being  still  thrown  on  the  con- 
gregation. 


(3nt  ^unitreh  5II|ou8anJ»  iollara  Prmtiira  fnr  denlurtpa  of  <6aah  Wavk. 


Facade  of  Third  Church,   showing  also  present 
Parish  House — 1886. 


Our  Young"  People's  Club  is  interesting  with  pure 
and  proper  recreation,  sixty,  eighty  and  one  hundred 
young  men  and  young  women,  some  of  whom,  with- 
out the  Club,  would  be  walking  the  brilliantly  lighted 
avenues  in  the  evening  or  going  with  frivolous  or 
even  vicious  companions.  The  Boys'  Brigade  with 
regular  artillery  drill  on  every  Wednesday  night,  has 
been  the  means  of  keeping  growing  lads  off  the  streets. 
And  we  are  finding  positions  for  these  young  lads  when 
they  leave  school  and  enter  the  great  world. 


Up  nteh  (3at  i^ixniireh  mtfaaaanb  SaUara 


To  avoid  all  misunderstanding,  it  is  asked  that  every 
one  giving-  to  the  Endowment  Fund,  expressly  state  his 
intention.  All  undesignated  sums  will  be  applied  by 
the  Rector  and  Vestry  according  to  their  best  judgment, 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Parish. 

All  moneys  received  for  the  Endowment  Fund,  and 
not  otherwise  safeguarded,  will  be  turned  over  to  the 
Farmers'  Loan  and  Trust  Company  of  New  York,  to 
be  invested  by  them  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  the  interest  to  be  paid  to  the  regularly  accredited 
Treasurer  of  St.  Mark's  Parish,  for  the  support  of  ser- 
vices in  the  church. 


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Will  you  give  a  cash  amount  to  the  Endowment 
Fund,  payable  at  your  convenience? 

Will  you  make  an  annual  cash  gift  for  the  next  five 
years    to   the   Endowment  Fund,  payable    each    year    at 

Christmas? 

Will  you  convey  to  a  trust  company,  any  cash  or 
securities  the  income  of  which  shall  be  paid  at  regular 
intervals  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Church,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  Endowment? 


IN  IKKIOK,     IHIKI)    CHURCH 


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lEn&nui  luttl?  ©nt  ^unbtth  (SifouBanti  loUara. 


Will  you  convey  to  the  Church,  any  stocks  or  bonds, 
or  house  or  land,  or  securities  of  any  description,  for  the 
Endowment  Fund? 

Will  you  make  by  will  a  bequest  to  the  Endowment 
Fund? 

After  you  have  enjoyed  your  property  for  life,  and 
after  you  have  provided  during  their  natural  lives  for 
the  support  of  any  others,  will  3'ou  finally  allow  St. 
Mark's  Church  to  receive  the  remainder,  or  a  part  of  it, 
for  the  purpose  of  Endowment? 


Make  all  Payments  to 

Mr.   Clement  Lockitt,  Treasurer 

199  Carlton  Avenue,   Brooklyn 


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The  Fourth  Church,  Adelphi  Street:  the  Chapel 
built  in  1885,  costing  $11,000;  the  Church  erected  1888-9, 
costing  $55,000.  ;  in  each  case  exclusive  of  the  value  of 
the  ground. 

Rev.   Spencer  S.    Roche,  D.  D.,    1875  — 


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Wnt  ^uniivtb  ®lJnuaan^  from  iJlatiij  (&xvttB. 


We  are  appealing  to  all  who  have  been  helped,  com- 
forted or  in  any  way  ministered  to  during  the  sixty  years, 
by  the  clergy  of  vSt.  Mark's  Parish.  Many  of  onr  saints 
have  long  since  fallen  asleep  and  are  rejoicing  in  the  fi:l- 
fillment  of  the  divine  promises  heard  within  the  walls  of 
St.  Mark's.  We  appeal  in  their  name  and  memory  to 
any  of  the  living  who  now  represent  them  : 

To  all  who  were  baptized  in  any  of  the  four  churches 
that  we  have  occupied,  or  by  any  of  the  ministers  of  St. 
Mark's; 

To  all  who  were  confirmed  or  whose  parents  were 
confirmed  in  our  classes; 

To  all  who  were  married  here  or  whose  parents  were 
married  by  our  clergy ; 

To  all  whose  beloved  ones  were  laid  to  rest  with  our 
solemn  burial  service; 

To  all  who  in  sickness  or  trouble  were  visited  by  our 
clergy,  and  who  received  sympathy,  consolation,  en- 
couragement and  the  spiritual  power  to  take  up  anew 
the  burdens  of  living. 

We  solicit  the  generosity  of  all,  to  secure  this  church 
against  the  possibility  of  ever  having  to  close  its  doors. 


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The  Rectory,  situated  a  few  rods  from  the  Church, 
at  the  intersection  of  Adelphi  Street  and  Willoughby 
Avenue,  free  from  mortgage  and  every  encumbrance, 
became  the  property  of  the  Parish  in  1905,  by  the  noble 
bequest  of  Mrs.  Jane  M.  IMortimer,  for  many  years  a  de- 
vout and  active  member. 

51   Feet  on  Adelphi  Street 
102  Feet  on  Willoughby  Ayenue 


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A  }?rapr  for  ?£atabUaI|mettl 

O  Almighty  God,  who  hast  instructed  thy  holy 
Church  with  the  heavenly  doctrine  of  thy  Evangelist 
Saint  Mark;  Give  us  grace  that,  being  not  like  children 
carried  away  with  every  blast  of  vain  doctrine,  we  may 
be  established  in  the  truth  of  thy  holy  Gospel;  through 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.     Amen. 


A  Praufr  for  Hiberalitij 

O  Almighty  God,  who  by  thy  blessed  Son  didst  call 
Matthew  from  the  receipt  of  custom  to  be  an  Apostle 
and  Evangelist;  Grant  us  grace  to  forsake  all  covetous 
desires,  and  inordinate  love  of  riches,  and  to  follow  the 
same  thy  son  Jesus  Christ,  who  liveth  and  reigneth  with 
thee  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  one  God,  world  without  end. 
Amen. 


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INKERS    OIT 

lixJJ^xBiR.  Collins,   I^JC 

138  LiviNoexoN  St. 

Brooklyn,  N,  Y. 


PHOTOMOUNT 
PAMPHLET  BINDER 

Manu/aclurtd  ky 

SAYLORO  BROS.  Ine- 

Syracus*,  N.  Y. 

Stoclcton,  Cilif. 


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